WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19, 1961
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Of Heart?
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The Rec Hall rulers must be having a change of heart.
First they get a full-time assistant for John Egli and now it
appears that they're actually going to give his basketball
team a chance to hit the .500 mark next year.
The schedule-makers released Egli's 1961-62 winter date book
yesterday and it lists 20 games-10 at home, 10 away plus three on
a "neutral court':
For the sake of quibbling we'll revise the schedule and call
it 10 home and 13 away because the Penn Palestra, where the
Lions will play in a Christmas tournament, is the home floor for
Villanova and Penn, two other tourney entrants.
Actually, the Lions may play only 22 games, depending on the
outcome of their first two tourna
ment tilts. If they lose the first
two games they'll be out, but if
they win one or more they con
tinue
At this point, Egli isn't worry
ing about how many games he'll
be playing. He's just overjoyed
that his Lions won't have to
struggle through another sched
ule like the 1960-61 outrage.
If you have a short memory,
the Lions spent most of the win
ter on the road playing 16 away
games. They were at home eight
times and consequently wound up
with an 11-13 record.
No one can figure the sudden
benevolence toward the hoop
sport on Mt. Nittany but it's here
and rumors say there may be
some other surprises on the way.
Maybe so, but in the meantime Egli's new assistant, Snowy
Simpson, and the improved schedule will serve as a starter
toward making Penn State basketball respectable again. Don't
be fooled, though, there's a long way to go.
The highpoint of the new schedule will be a meeting with
NCAA runner-up Ohio State at Columbus Dec. 23. The Lions prob
ably will come back with a fat guarantee and some future football
contracts but that's about all.
In addition to Ohio State, the Nittanies will face such national
powers as Duke, Temple, Army, and West Virginia.
They could meet up with some real tough competition in the
ECAC Quaker City tournament too, This tournament is the
counterpart of the ECAC Holiday Festival in Madison Square
Garden and between the two, the ECAC has a near monopoly
on some of the nation's top teams.
Appearing with the Lions from Dec. 26-30 will be Penn, Villa
nova, Niagara, lowa, Holy Cross, Duquesne and Wyoming.
That's quite a field. Penn loses only Bob Mikity this year and
the Quakers should be the top contender for the Ivy League title.
Niagara and Holy Cross, a pair of NIT entrants, have their
big guns back while Villanova will have Hubie White and a brand
new coach—Jack Kraft.
lowa, along with Purdue, should give Ohio State a real
battle for the Big Ten crown next year even though the Bucks
still have Jerry Lucas.
The Lions wilt open their home season and the campaign
Dec. 2 against Maryland. The other home opponents are: Lehigh,
West Virginia, Syracuse, Bucknell, Navy, Colgate, Gettysburg,
Army and Pitt.
On the road State will face: Duke, Colgate, Syracuse, Ohio
State, Pitt, Carnegie Tech, Bucknell, West Virginia, Temple
and Rutgers.
The lieheritde: Dee. 2. Maryland; 5, Lehigh; R. at Syracuse; 9, at COlgate 16,
West Virginia; 19, Syrarnae; 23, at Ohio State: 26, 24. 10, ECAC Toruney at.
Jan. 3, at Mike; 6, at Pithburgh; 9, Dm:knell: 13. Navy; 16, Colgate:
20 nt Carnegie Tech; Feb. 6. Gettysburg; 13, at Ducknell: 17, Army; 241, at West
Virginia; 21, Pittaburzh: 28 at Temple; March 3, at }Niger%
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
By Sandy Padwo
Collegian. Sports Editor
SOHN EGLI
Brown Rips
Londoner
In sth Round
LONDON (RP)—Lightweight
Champion Joe Brown of Baton
Rouge, La., cut Dave Charn
ley's nose in the fifth round
and hammered out a decision
over the blood-smeared Briton
yesterday.
It was Brown's second straight
title victory over the 25-year-old
Londoner and his tenth defense
of the 135-division crown.
The 35-year-old American
stopped Charnley on a cut over
the right eye in six rounds at
Houston, Texas, 16 months ago.
There were no knockdowns al
though both fell to the canvas aft
er a collision in the first round.
The long-armed American re
peatedly sinas h e d Charnley's
gashed nose with fast rights and
snapping left jabs. By the 12th
round Charnley was br u is e d
about the eyes, streaming blood
from the nose cut and trying des
perately for a long shot knock
out. But Brown calmly pecked
away with both hands and piled
up points.
A sellout crowd of 18.000 in
Earls Court Stadium paid about
$112.000 for London's first title
bout since light heavyweight
champion Archie Moore knock
ed out Yolande Pompey in the
tenth round. Brown earned
about $50,000 and Charnley
about $28,000.
Brown weighed 133 1 / 4 pounds,
ICharnley 134 1 / 2 .
It was the first defeat for Charn
ley. British and European light
weight champion, since he was
stopped by Brown. He had won
five straight. His record is 37-7-1.
Brown's victory made his rec
ord 133-18-10. Until Brown sur
passed it, the great Benny Leon
ard held the record for light
weight title defenses, eight.
Bull-Edwards Duo Cops
Handball Doubles Title
Delta Upsilon's Ed Ball and Tom
Edwards scored an upset over
Tau Kappa Epsilon's Gene Flick
and Gene Rockey to win the fra
ternity IM handball doubles
championship 21-19, 21-11, last
night.
Flick has won the singles title
the past two years.
The win widened DU's lead in
the overall INT standings.
Footballers Pete Liske and
Steve Popp copped the independ
ent handball doubles crown by de
feating Howard Schimmel and
Stan Lebofskv, 21-8. 21-16.
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the National Basketball Associa
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Lions Hope DeLong
Can Regain Form
At the start of the 1961 season Joe Bedenk based Penn
State's chances for a successful year on a good showing by the
pitchers and a return to form by Zeke DeLong.
It may be a little too early to tell, but the Lion captain
hasn't come through as well as
expected so far.
We're counting on Zeke for
our power," Bedenk said before
the season started. "He'll be our
cleanup hitter and we hope he'll
drive in some runs for us."
DeLong was the Lions' regular
right fielder in his sophomore
year, batting .368 as State fin
ished fourth in the College World
Series in Omaha, Neb.
Big things were expected of
the Lions and DeLong last year,
but the Nittanies staggered to a
9-9 record and DeLong slipped to
.222.
The soft-spoken senior is one
for nine so far this year, a single
in the Lions' opener with
Gettysburg.
The Nittanv coachinq, staff can't
figure out what's the matter with
DeLong, and Zeke isn't sure him
self.
"I haven't changed my swing,"
DeLong said, "I'm just not hitting
the ball.
"Last year I always seemed
to be swinging early and now ZEICE DeLONO
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I'm swinging late," he said. * * *
His RBI production dropped off!going to start dropping in."
from 19 in 1959 to eight last yeao To top his troubles, DeLong
but Zeke is confident he will doistrained his shoulder making a
better this season. llong throw in the Gettysburg
"I'm not changing anything." hegame .
said, "but I think the hits are; The shoulder is responding to
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treatment, but the veteran out
2nd Draft Choice Signs fielder doesn't have full throw
ing power yet.
Contract With Cincinnati, "It doesn't hurt," DeLong said,
CINCINNATI Wt 'The Cin-:"I just can't throw as hard as I
cinnati Royals of the National want to."
Basketball Association announced DeLong has yet to make an
yesterday that Bob Wiesenhahnerror in two years as the Lions'
leading scorer on the University! regular righ fielder. He handled
of Cincinnati's 1961 NCAA cham-!21 chances flawlessly and threw
pions, has agreed to terms to play.out four runners trying to take
with the Royals next season. , an extra base last season.
Wiesenhahn was the Royals' He hopes to break his slump
second choice in the recent NBA! this Saturday when the Lions host
draft of college players.. cLafayette on Beaver Field:.
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